The library is currently under development and is compatible with Python2 and
Python3. As it is under development, many things are not working and are likely
to break.

Installation and source code

To install pypolymake you need polymake in version 3.0 or later together with
its header files. You also need Cython.

The simplest way to install the package is to use:

$ pip install pypolymake --user

(the –user argument make the installation in your home directory and can be
omitted if you have write access to your system). Alternatively,
you can download (or clone) the source repository at https://github.com/videlec/pypolymake
and then run in that directory:

$ python setup.py install --user

If polymake headers or libraries are installed in a non standard location you
may need to set the environment variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS. For example,
on OS X, you need to update LDFLAGS as:

You might also need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting Python if the shared
library of polymake (libpolymake.so) is not in a standard directory.

License

The library pypolymake is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/)

Authors

This project has been started by Burcin Erocal in 2011 and continued
by Vincent Delecroix in 2016